El Capitan. no packages were eligible for install.

This was the magic bullet for me. Thank you, very frustrating problem. I had successfully updated a dozen or so iMacs from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to El Capitan (10.11) in the past (like a couple years ago) and then I had this failure on two iMacs this month. One edit I had to make was to log in as Superuser; so I had to type the sudo -s command before I could reset the date. Thanks again for the fix jmaiers!

Hello forum members:

I have not been on this forum for a long time, but I was having problems with a 2007 iMac running El Capitan after erasing the hard drive (in order to give it to a friend) and receiving the 'no packages' warning.

I came across the work-around posted by jmaiers and it worked at treat. Saved me some real headaches, so thank you very much for the clear and concise procedure.

Best wishes,

Bob Sutton.

Thank you so much. I wish I would have seen this 8 hours ago and before I spent nearly an hour on the phone with Apple only to get an appointment scheduled to meet with the Geniuses at the Apple store.

I am soooo happy, thanks again.

does anyone have a step by step on how to do this? when I changed my date it wouldn't let me download El Capitan until I changed the date back to the correct time. at what point do you change the date?

does anyone have a step by step on how to do this? when I changed my date it wouldn't let me download El Capitan until I changed the date back to the correct time. at what point do you change the date?

Having problems with Safari mail, i hit send and it goes to the out box. Then i have to send it again from the out box. My Daughter said she never got any e-mails from me yesterday , but i sent her 3.

I am running a 2019 27 inch I Mac with OS Catalina 10.15.3

Thanks for any help

Thank you Jmaiers. I logged in just to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I followed your instructions and it worked. I am so thankful I don’t have to send my cousin’s computer to Apple to have a technician look at it. I don’t know why sometimes these things get so complicated. I spoke with 5 agents for 2 days and nobody was able to help me , and it was a very simple fix. Thank you again.

Macbook Pro 15" (mid 2015) - I've tried everything in this thread so far and nothing is working.

@jmaiers, when I follow your instructions, I run into a problem at step #2, when I receive a message "Can't download the additional components needed to install OS X" and cannot go any further.

I've also tried bootable USB created with this instructions: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886 as well as an older bootable USB I created in 2017. Have tried date changes ranging from 2015 - 2019. No luck.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

These instructions have worked as a charm. Thanks. But there is still an issue.

When I run Disk Utility, it says "problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting". Do you have the solution for this?

Regards

NE

Wow, great advice, thanks. I've been trying to resurrect an old Macbook Air from Lion to High Sierra via El Capitan and this issue was killing me. Would never have deduced it was a date issue on my own.

I still have the same message el captain no packages were eligible for install. I have changed the date it gave me message to contact the software manufacturer for assistance.. it’s been very frustrating

I have to add, after "force"installing el Capitan, my iMac has become very very slow and not working properly, it crashes half of the time and takes ages to do something, if it decides to do it.

If I could I would go back and "undo" it by uninstalling but can't be bothered really, good it was not my main computer.

Hello,

I want your help please help me I have a MacBook with an error ....What the error is?"No packages were eligible to install" I have tried many ways to solve this but it didn't work

I have check my date but it is already right

I press command and r but still it didnt work

Please help me I beg you to help me

Stay Home Stay Safe

Tilal Ahmed😊😊

Yes. I used this solution two months ago and was so relieved this worked. I'd been searching for a solution for over 6 months, tried many things but no luck, until now. I hope you have success with this like I did.

Thanks guys.... I literally wasted like 2 hours on chat with the Apple help desk last night trying to figure this out. And was about to buy a new HDD hoping it would be fixed.... thanks for this tip to save me all the trouble.